Bu, R 
ORCID: 0000-0002-3947-3038, Hadri, Kaddour and Kristensen, Dennis
(2021)
Diffusion Copulas: Identification and Estimation.
Journal of Econometrics, 221 (2).
pp. 616-643.
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Abstract
We propose a new semiparametric approach for modelling nonlinear univariate diffusions, where the observed process is a nonparametric transformation of an underlying parametric diffusion (UPD). This modelling strategy yields a general class of semiparametric Markov diffusion models with parametric dynamic copulas and nonparametric marginal distributions. We provide primitive conditions for the identification of the UPD parameters together with the unknown transformations from discrete samples. Likelihood-based estimators of both parametric and nonparametric components are developed and we analyse their asymptotic properties. Kernel-based drift and diffusion estimators are also proposed and shown to be normally distributed in large samples. A simulation study investigates the finite sample performance of our estimators in the context of modelling US short-term interest rates. We also present a simple application of the proposed method for modelling the CBOE volatility index data.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Diffusion process, Dynamic copula, Transformation model, Identification, Semiparametric maximum likelihood |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Sep 2020 15:01 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2023 23:32 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jeconom.2020.06.004 |
| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3101572 |
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